Craving Theo

Craving Theo, a quartet based in Portland, emerged from the Pacific Northwest with their major-label release in 2002, with a sound that brought the region attention a decade earlier with bands like <a href="spotify:artist:6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh">Nirvana</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5xUf6j4upBrXZPg6AI4MRK">Soundgarden</a>, and, most applicable to Craving Theo, <a href="spotify:artist:64tNsm6TnZe2zpcMVMOoHL">Alice in Chains</a>, Three-quarters of the band, lead singer/guitarist Calvin Baty, bass player Brian McMillen, and drummer <a href="spotify:artist:1G9AcaVa5rcmA9UmakXnPl">Jason Dunn</a>, had come together by the summer of 1999. Teaming with producer Rick Parashar, whose credits included <a href="spotify:artist:64tNsm6TnZe2zpcMVMOoHL">Alice in Chains</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1w5Kfo2jwwIPruYS2UWh56">Pearl Jam</a>, and adding guitarist Bob Capka, the band set to work on an album, which they finished in October 2000. Through constant gigging and the attention of a Portland radio station that gave heavy airplay to the track "Stomp," the band's following began to grow. The record was picked up by Columbia and Craving Theo was inked to a deal with the label, which reissued the album in 2002. ~ Tom Demalon, Rovi